![]() Q : You check these things before you fire, usually, right? All I’m saying is what we’re able – I said what we’re willing to share is that it was in – TONER: I understand what – your question, Brad. ![]() Q : So you don’t know where you targeted him? You just guessed? I mean, how could you fire something out of the sky and blow something up and kill people and not know what country it’s in? Come on. ![]() ![]() These developments might, although this remains to be seen, reduce scenes such as the one at a May 23 State Department press briefing, when its spokesman Mark Toner seemed short on basic details about the strike that killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor: Obama’s 2013 policy guidance, released on July 31, after the American Civil Liberties Union sued for its release, had set “near certainty” that a “terrorist target is present” and that “non-combatants will not be injured or killed” as criteria for a strike. considers the Islamic State a much greater danger these days, including in Afghanistan, where the group is at odds with the Taliban and al-Qaida and has been blamed for many deadly attacks.The release of President Barack Obama’s 2013 drone warfare playbook and the July 1 signing of an executive order on minimising civilian casualties has security analysts looking back at previous strikes and wondering what effect the executive order might have on future ones. With history as a guide, he says al-Qaida leaders are expected to name a successor to al-Zawahiri.Īl-Qaida still poses a threat to the U.S., he adds, even if it is a "vastly diminished terrorist network" than it was two decades ago, or even in 2011 when the U.S. Kirby says al-Zawahiri was "actively engaged in urging his followers to plot and plan attacks" including potentially in the U.S. was able to gather detailed intelligence and carry out a long-range strike, at least in this instance. ability to do with the military gone, the embassy closed and intelligence being much more difficult to gather. was pulling out a year ago, American military leaders said they would continue to keep tabs on Afghanistan from "over the horizon." is providing humanitarian assistance, Afghanistan is painfully low on food, medicine and other basics.Īs the U.S. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, who was in Kabul at the time of the Sunday strike, says residents were awoken by the sound of at least one early-morning explosion and later shared images of a multi-story house with the windows blown out.Īsia Read What The Taliban Told NPR About Their Plans For Afghanistan Zawahiri presented that kind of a threat and that's why we took him out." Zawahiri's hideout suggests ties between al-Qaida and Taliban We also said that the plan isn't to hit every single al-Qaida terrorist with a missile, it's to make sure that we are defeating those threats to our homeland, to the American people. "We said a year ago that we knew al-Qaida was starting to move back, in small numbers, into Afghanistan," Kirby added. will not let Afghanistan become a safe haven for terrorists. John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House's National Security Council, told Morning Edition that the strike deals a significant blow to al-Qaida's operations, and proves that the U.S. ![]() says it killed al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for an interview that was published in November 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. ![]()
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